Of all the enchanting occupations on a really hot day, getting yourself nicely scented is the best, says Mi Diana Wayne in the "Daily Mail One of the cleverest women I know soaks a tiny cotton-wool ball in her favourite scent before she is beauty-conscious days, thank Heaven, she is hardly likely to. There are ssu many beguiling outdoor scents for ber—sweet briar and jasmin and fougére, and the fresh, delightful lilac that belongs naturally to seventeen summers, going to a dance, and tucks it into the centre of her decolletage.
Another, a Frenchwoman, perfumes the hem of her frocks so that as she moves she leaves the air faintly sweeter behind her. Still an-Other keeps a pomander (a dried orange studded with cloves, spicy and delicious) in her linen cupboard, so that. the warm air permeates everything she wears.
There are as many ways to use perfume, in fact, as there are subtle women in the world. And all good
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